Comments on: Tribune Business Editor fired for … quoting a blogger?

By: JC Skinner

JC Skinner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:23:42 +0000

Sad to hear. Really fucking sad to hear.

By: vince

vince — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:42:03 +0000

Any idea who Richard will write for next? I’ll certainly follow…

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:24:26 +0000

From todays Irish Times –

The business editor of the Sunday Tribune , Richard Delevan, has been let go and a columnist Bill Tyson has resigned in solidarity with him.

Any other columnist going to join them????

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:24:19 +0000

Sad to say, but these days I’d trust blogs more than newspapers. Here’s one example why.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:16:41 +0000

How could anyone possibly insult Shannon? She was fantastic in 90210.

By: John McCormac

John McCormac — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:14:10 +0000

The Trib’s property porn section might be more attractive to advertisers than the business section. It wasn’t very wise to upset an advertiser like that. Does this mean that you will be taking over the position of business editor at the Trib Damien?

By: DaithÃ

DaithÃ — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:42:17 +0000

Yes. Because insulting the sacred Shannon slots means you deserve to get fired. Right.

By: squid

squid — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:32:13 +0000

I guess the shoe is on the other foot now for Mr. Delevane. Back in august he was crowing about Aer Lingus’ decision to move shannon slots to Belfast, and using terms bordering on insulting to describe Shannon. Maybe now that he is on the receiving end of an equally inexplicable business decision he might learn some understanding of the world around him.

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:18:09 +0000

I was surprised at the stuff about him in The Phoenix to be honest.

I’ve met Richard a couple of times and we gave Google’s green guru a bit of a grilling at the Google press day this year.

There has to be more behind his firing than just that article. Everyone knows the paper is under financial pressure. And The Independent and the IoS in London have recently purged their business journalists.

I think things have added up to give the paper an excuse for firing him some time after they’d made the decision to do so.

Another thing – when did it break a good lead business story, for example?

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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:09:13 +0000

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